secretary of state hillary clinton with john kerry. there was a clear message in the president's remarks that, of course, the u.s. will always be involved, i am paraphrasing of course. there is clearly a pullback here. a mentality expressed by the likes of chuck hagel and, of course, john kerry that the u.s. should not be involved in each and every crisis that comes up. in other words republican critics will say surrounding that role to international agencies, united nations or europe, more to the point. the french wanting some funding and more support and what they were seeing. islamic activity and malley and elsewhere. those days, that sort of unilateral coast, you know, americana argon. peter: you also did not want to see that america's role as a superpower in the world. sometimes, events forced the united states to take action. we saw that for example in libya. i do want to let you know, by the way, one of the things that the president did today, as you saw him, he sat down and signed a bunch of documents. among the documents he si